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The sleep of the righteous / Wolfgang Hilbig ; translated by Isabel Fargo Cole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Schlaf der Gerechten. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German fiction.
- Germany (East)--Fiction.
- Germany (East).
- Germany (West)--Fiction.
- Germany (West).
- Hilbig, Wolfgang, 1941-2007--Translations into English.
- Hilbig, Wolfgang.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- 2015.
- San Francisco, California : Two Lines Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- Doppelgangers, a murderer's guilt, pulp noir, fanatical police, and impossible romances - these are the pieces from which German master Wolfgang Hilbig builds a divided nation battling its demons. Delving deep into the psyches of both East and West Germany, The Sleep of the Righteous reveals a powerful, apocalyptic account of the century-defining nation's trajectory from 1945 to 1989. From a youth in a war-scarred industrial town to wearying labor as a factory stoker, surreal confrontations with the Stasi, and, finally, a conflicted escape to the West, Hilbig creates a cipher that is at once himself and so many of his fellow Germans.
- Contents:
- Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 176
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 19, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-931883-48-3
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